I recently started using CachyOS and just stumbled upon some strange behavior. Whenever I search for something using history search "*string*" or history search --contains "*string*", according to the fish docs, it always returns the entire history.
Can someone here perhaps help me or explain the behavior?
I have never tried to use history search xxx so far, but I can confirm from my side: I can not get it to work either.
BUT I have never heard of it because you can search for previous commands with ctrl +r and then just start typing.
Itâs even interactive so you can directly jump to the right command and execute it.
Additionally you could type fish_config to open the web interface to configure fish.
It has a âhistoryâ tab where you can search for any command in the UI.